Hacker News Reader

Hacker News

Comment by mbgaxyz | Hacker News Reader

Full thread

mbgaxyz

Maybe office workers prefer not to have to run the gauntlet of feces and hypodermic needles, just to buy a sandwich.

"San Francisco Man Steps on Hydodermic Needle, Demands Action"

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/on-air/as-seen-on/SF-Businesses-W...

"Junkies Take Over Corridors Of San Francisco Civic Center BART Station"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gT5NULvRSk

"SF Crime, Squalor Scares Away $40 Million Medical Convention"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLcoOIDJBsc

SF Mayor: 'There's More Feces ... Than I've Ever Seen'

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/SF-Mayor-Theres-more-f...

View on HN

The city government here is terrible. We’ve gone well past the point of of tolerance here. There are tons of violent, aggressive, tweakers and thieves the city does nothing about. I feel for the mentally ill and they deserve help. But there are even more that are just crackheads and tweakers who just don’t want to live in society and prefer living on the street. We have got to start enforcing the law and driving those criminal types out of the city or put them in jail. I can’t even go to the Safeway down the street without feeling unsafe. I have to walk my wife to her car every day because there have been so many creeps and weirdos in our garage.... cops refuse to do jackshit about trespassing. Why is such a shithole so expensive? Can’t we pay a little more and just solve this problem? The status quo cannot be allowed to continue.

I don’t think Breed is okay with this display of overbearing government. This outlsndish and hope it wakes people up to the misalignment between govt and the needs of the population at large.

Breed comes from the moderate wing, like most of SF's real leadership.

Aaron Peskin and his allies like Safai and Kim... I don't know what to call them. They style themselves progressive but really all they do is pander to various constituencies across the spectrum of SF politics. Their policies are inconsistent and altogether ridiculous. They're a reflection of our absurd national politics--reactionary, pseudo-intellectual, anything but pragmatic and results oriented.

Kakistocracy seems to sum them up

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy

I think you're right. I hope the citizenry prove her right and re-elect her in 18 months. But I can already Imagine Peskin and Kim conspiring against her. Those two are not there to serve "the people" they only serve very narrow interests and derail the city from consistent policies to better it for everyone.

Maybe those things will get addressed once people have to run a gauntlet to buy a sandwich. It's much harder to ignore in an ivory tower.

Maybe the city should directly address those things instead of hoping that a bought-out law crafted for special interests will magically fix it for them.

Replace "people" with "politicians" and I'll give you an upvote.

At the risk of nit-picking the humor out of your comment, I'd say the city's politicians already do run that gauntlet. City Hall is adjacent to the open-air drug market known as the Tenderloin, and many members of the city's transient population frequent the park in front of City Hall. Also, the closest BART stop (Civic Center station) is arguably the stop in SF with the most persistent hygiene issues.

Yeah and you can bet your ass those politicians are hopping in an Uber and sailing right by it behind tinted windows...

Unless you live and work in the same building, there is no ignoring this stuff in SF.

I don't see in FIDI. Not sure how SOMA is

The board of supervisors doesn't have a cafeteria and yet they have no problem ignoring it

Reply on news.ycombinator.com